Theorising welfare

23x15,5 cm., in brossura, pp. (4), 248, alcune figure nel testo, prima edizione, in lingua inglese, buone condizioni.

...an accessible and original textbook on the welfare state and the idea of welfare. There is nothing available like it in terms of its scope and intellectual sweep...The authors show how understandings of welfare are connected to wider perspectives on social change and development, providing a guide to sicial theories of welfare at the same time as exploring some of the social and political contextes in which those theories have arisen and developed...